Best-practices, Guidelines and Vision from the Enterprise PLM think-tank at Oracle

Monday Sep 15, 2008

Often our customers are looking for additional means to restrict Read or Modify privileges on an Item based on the status of related Changes. For example, file attachment checkin may need to be allowed for pending revisions of items only as long as the corresponding ECO is in authoring mode ("Pending" status), but not once the ECO gets submitted or routed. Before Agile PLM 9.2.2.2, achieving the desired business result could be complicated. Now, Agile PLM has some very powerful capabilities to write Criteria against an Item that checks the related Change status. The enhanced functionality around variables such as $CURRENTREV and $LATESTREV can help Agile Administrators write criteria that meet business goals to limit Item Read or Modify privileges.[Read More]